- The water wasn't safe, so the English used drink beer
- By 1650 they had started drinking tea and coffee and since before they were drunk, the Enlightenment started when tea and coffee spread.
- From pub to coffeehouse
- The architecture of the space allowed ideas to have sex
- Been studying what environments breed ideas, patterns
- Chaotic environments
- Important ideas have long incubation periods, they fade into view
- Building barricades around ideas - copyright, patenting - which stifles many of them
- Noodling around, hacking
- Chance favors the connected mind - ideas that pop into your head by chance because people suggest reasons and uses for your ideas, stimulating your imagination
"Here's a novel idea to save the planet: Remove the main cause of its woes - homo sapiens. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT - pronounced "vehement") proposes the phasing out the human race. "When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, and evolve (if they believe in evolution)," offers the movement's website. But 'it's going to take all of us going'." See www.vhemt.org SOURCE: Email invite. I thought I was the only one who thought like this. Everyone I know thanks the universe that I didn't study microbiology. I would have developed a human-specific killer virus. WE are the vermin.
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